Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- graven-corner-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Willian Church Road, SG6 2AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 224 306
- Coordinates
- 51.96093, -0.21906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints in Willian is a parish church with a two-bay nave and chancel dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, along with a tower and south porch from the 15th century. It features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and walls made of flint and ironstone rubble, accented with ashlar dressings and buttresses. The three-stage tower includes a stair turret, a battlemented parapet, moulded strings, diagonal buttresses, and gargoyles. The windows are in the Perpendicular style, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, and the porch is plain and gabled.
Inside, the church has a 19th-century timber barrel roof in the nave and chancel, while the chancel retains original corbel masks. There is a brass memorial for Richard Golden, who died in 1446, and notable wall monuments in the chancel commemorate Edward and Joan Lacon (died 1625 and 1624), John Chapman (died 1624), and Thomas Wilson (died 1656). The original 15th-century chancel screen has been removed, and there are carved chancel seats.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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